The Naked Rambler- Champion of Free Expression or Mad as a Bag of Wire Hangers?

rc · 24 January, 2004, 11:00:56 PM

Depends on the body on show, doesn't it?

Fat veiny white folk should be banned from stripping off in public, top birds should be encouraged.

There is beach in brazil once tried to ban fat people.

Dudley · 25 January, 2004, 01:10:02 AM

Fat veiny white folk should be banned from stripping off in public

Oi! We have rights, and feelings, you know!

rc · 25 January, 2004, 01:11:17 AM

Of course, sorry.

paulvonscott · 25 January, 2004, 07:20:55 AM

"Theres something not right about people with a deep need to get naked, make a fuss about it and get arrested."

Making a fuss, thirty years creep!

rc · 25 January, 2004, 09:04:52 PM

I'm naked as I type.

Proudhuff · 26 January, 2004, 06:34:44 PM

He wasn't bloody naked, he had on a hat, socks, boots and a rucksack. He was just a sad old attentiopn seeking willie waggler who (just) filled a couple of column inches.

More worrying was the man I saw last night by the Edinbra by-pass, truely naked making the sign of the horned one at passing cars while wanking off... no doubt just expressing himself.

Happy huff

Art · 26 January, 2004, 06:40:52 PM

"Making a fuss, thirty years creep!"

In a spirit of fairness I'm more than happy to see the same sentence applied to anyone who goes out of their way to find naked people and make a fuss about it.

paulvonscott · 26 January, 2004, 07:06:16 PM

"More worrying was the man I saw last night by the Edinbra by-pass, truely naked making the sign of the horned one at passing cars while wanking off... no doubt just expressing himself."

Oh, Gordon...

Slippery PD · 26 January, 2004, 07:11:26 PM

No problem at all with nudity. But this is fecking Britain, its really rather cold. Or at least cold enough to make going naked outside for a large portion of the year seem, rather mad. If this was the tropics, it would be an entirley different thing altogether. The bloke should be locked up for being so stupid....

Yer intollerant Slips

Trout · 26 January, 2004, 07:17:13 PM

I met him back in August, when he was still hoping to complete the walk during warm weather.

How wrong he was. :-)

Happily, Mr Gough was fully clothed when I interviewed him.

I can confirm he seemed entirely sane and rational, and appeared genuinely to believe in what he was doing.

I was tempted to ask him why he wasn't devoting his energies to a cause that actually mattered, but I decided not to, in the interests of politeness.

Whatever you think of him, he made good copy!

- Trout